The EU Commission presents proposals for the future handling of large amounts of non-personal data. Your producers should have better access.
Brussels. In the meantime, word has gotten around that the European Union has no interest in handing over control of the personal data of EU citizens to third countries – even if in practice there are still problems with the all-encompassing data protection, such as the tug-of-war over data transfers that has been going on for years assigned to the USA. The EU Commission now wants to extend this idea of protection to Big Data – i.e. large, non-personal data sets. Such data is produced, among other things, by autonomous vehicles, the agricultural industry or networked household appliances and is used, among other things, as feed for machine learning processes and for training purposes for artificial intelligence.
One of the ambitions of the EU in the field of data processing is not to leave the field to the USA and the People’s Republic of China when it comes to artificial intelligence, but to promote its own know-how – this will, however, involve infrastructure (i.e. a network of European IT companies) and Raw materials (i.e. data) are required. One goal of the draft data law presented by the Brussels authorities on Wednesday that was not explicitly declared is therefore to make it more difficult to export large data sets overseas.